Still amazes me how much people underestimate Nintendo.
Switch is going to beat PS4 and PS5. Nintendo is going to give new meaning to the term 'legs'. Pokemon and Kinect will look like amateurs compared.
Instead of acting surprised when it happens, just remember it's been written in the stars for years.

I usually bump this thread during the holidays, one year later every times.
Though considering what's happening right now, i can't just ignore the thread.
2020 has been an insane year, and Switch is having by far the biggest year ever.

Not only it seem that Switch is having a similar (if not better) sales curve than PS4, but it's sales in the 4th year are as huge as Nintendo Wii peak year in 2008
Here i made a comparation for USA:

The charts look good for Switch, but if we consider that PS4 should sell 140M lifetime, I'm still not sure if Switch can do that. It's a bit too far in the future and we don't know anything about Nintendo's hardware plans. 120M for Switch is almost given. Everything above depends on Nintendo's support for the console.

Thinking global, whatever ground NSW 2020 loses to Wii 2008 in Europe (if any) it will make up for in Japan.

Wii 08 sold 2.9M in Japan, NSW is at 2.439M through 23 weeks.  It will pass Wii 08 by end of July and the 3M it picks up after that will be gravy.

Well there were those polls about lifetime expectations recently and I predicted:

PS4: ~130 mil
Switch: 140-150 mil

So yea I expect the Switch to win by a... medium sized margin?
Ofc I would be way off if Nintendo launches their next console early, but I've been expecting 2024 for a while and with how well the Switch is doing now, I see no reason why they would do it earlier.

140 and 150 million actually are quite different if we compare to 130 million. 140 VS 130 is definitively a slighly margin. 150 huuum... that's already a bigger difference, but i would not call it "huge".

I agree with those predictions btw (i expect Switch closer to 140 than 150 tho), so my bet right is Switch by a slighly margin.

Still think NSW will win by a large margin. How large? The exact numbers at this point depend on how much these companies are willing to cut the price of these systems. Currently Sony and Nintendo are acting as if price cuts have become passe. Will the PS4 get another price cut, and if so to what level? Will the Switch get a price cut...ever?

Alright, time to bump this again, and maybe this will be the last time since PS5 is officially released, and because this comparation is pretty much over.
No matter what happens, Switch will win. By a lot. Anyone who disagree, well sorry but it is time to wake up.

Many new threads about PS4 VS Switch happened in 2020, when people started realizing the potential of the console, but yeah this was pretty much the original "PS4 VS Switch" thread.

Was fun to see how things have evolved, will be fun to see how things evolve in the future. Many people think is impossible for PS5 to beat Switch, for example (understandable, since Switch has a huge chance of becoming the best selling console of all time).
However, as this thread showed us, anything is possible...

Anything but PS4 winning this lol.

I'm sure now its all of a sudden unfair to compare the two. Switch went from having no chance against cheaper more powerful platforms to no Switch has an unfair advantage.

I voted NS by a small margin but the way PS4 is going now and the momentum NS has amassed it's looking like it's going to be a significant to large margin at this point, NS will hit 100m next year and could do it before the holiday buzz of November arrives.